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Welcome to the fourth hour of "morning joe." 6:00 a.m. on the west coast, 9:00 a.m. in the east. breaking news this hour in the donald trump classified documents case. according to court documents, judge aileen cannon has set a trial date, august 14th, as the day for the trial to begin. that's not too long from now. i'm a little surprised. >> i'm very surprised at it. >> august is going to be spicy. >> i will say, of course, there's a possibility that there will be delays. there are usually delays in trials. that said, the judge set the date for august 14th, understanding the complexities of t...

Being with us. it is 10:00 eastern. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. we are following breaking news this morning. charges have just been filed against hunter biden, the son of the sitting president has agreed to a plea deal for two tax misdemeanors and a separate gun possession charge that will likely be dismissed. we'll have more on the latest in just a moment, including new reaction from the white house. plus, more breaking news, save the date for the start of donald trump's federal trial. august 14th, this year, as in less than a couple of months from now for that classified docum...

While addicted to drugs. if he enters a program, he will not be charged. this plea agreement calls for probation. it appears to cap the end of a five-year intensive investigation into hunter biden's dealings overseas, millions of dollars paid to him by ukrainian and chinese business interests and his failings to pay taxes on some of that income. there's no evidence that the fbi found any wrong doing with regard to the business relationships but he is admitting to crimes for failing to pay taxes. >> thank you for that. and former president trump's classified documents case now has a federal tri...

>> there have been so many questions about judge cannon because of some of her rulings in the early stages of this probe where she seemed to grant the trump defense team a lot of leeway. but at least in this one, this is a surprise how early this is. let's be clear. it's not going to start august 14th. there will be a lot of delays. also there are inherent delays in a matter like this that involves the handling of classified materials. that's going to slow things down too. they've known there would be slowdowns and that trump is going to ask for delays. that was always baked in, but she's star...

To pivot to former president trump. first of all, the trial judge set the august 14th date for the trial which could change with pretrial motions and other stays. what do you think about that? but importantly, let me play a little bit about what he said to bret baier in a really tough comprehensive meeting last night on fox news about why he held on to the classified documents. this was his first real response since the indictment. >> i have every right to have those boxes. this is purely a presidential records act. this is not a criminal thing. in fact, "the new york times" of all had a story...